(RNS) — Iran is on our minds and on our lips. There is far more to that story than meets the eye. The Jewish community of Iran (once Persia) is arguably one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world....
Moscow, IDAHO (FāVS News) — Nearly 200 residents of this northern Idaho town gathered Tuesday night (Dec. 17) to discuss combating Christian nationalism, joined by a podcaster who is investigating the growing influence of Christian nationalist leader Doug Wilson in the...
The Southern US border is often portrayed as a battleground, but the reality is far more nuanced. RNS reporter Aleja Hertzler-McCain unpacks the way faith communities in Brownsville, Texas, are responding to immigration challenges in diverse ways — offering...
(RNS) — The shock of Joshua Harris’ deconversion has still not worn off. Even Harris can’t seem to stop replaying his disavowal of Christianity. In the summer of 2019, Harris, once the darling of evangelical Christians for his purity culture...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A half-century after arriving in the nation’s capital to work as a lobbyist for Reform Judaism, Rabbi David Saperstein is still energized by the work he’s doing — and he’s still doing a lot of work. This...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Given his decades-long experience in interfaith relations, religious freedom, and faith and politics, Rabbi David Saperstein is often sought out for speeches and advice. In the wake of the November election, the director emeritus of the Religious...
(RNS) — In Christianity’s early centuries, Syria became one of the faith’s main intellectual centers, producing some of its most important leaders and thinkers. At the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011, nearly 1,400 years after the conquest...
You have experienced this. You go to the dentist, and she pulls a tooth, and your tongue instinctively goes to the place in the mouth where that tooth used to be. It’s called the presence of an absence. That...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Violent clashes have broken out between groups of Methodists in Nigeria and Liberia as a divide over the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage has split the United Methodist Church. In the eight months since...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (RNS) — Sister Norma Pimentel remembers well the first time her new bishop joined the religious sisters in the Diocese of Brownsville at one of their gatherings. He came into the kitchen where she was preparing plates of...
